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Films I saw in January 2010
I may not be able to keep this up every month, but in January I saw 32 (mostly) good films, so I figure I can do a top ten list. There are a few minor spoilers.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Sometimes my view on a film takes time to coalesce. While I found the experience of watching the Texas Chain Saw Massacre a few weeks ago to be extremely unpleasant, it has stuck in my mind, and the more I think about it, the better I think it is.
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Gimme Shelter
Gimme Shelter is a beautifully edited glimpse of late 60s life. It chronicles the (lack of) planning and execution of the free concert at Altamont in December 1969. The focus is naturally on the Rolling Stones, but it goes beyond the formulaic concert footage that one expects and receives from it.
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Films I saw in 2009
I watched a total of 162 films in 2009. I only saw five that actually came out in 2009. Of those (Watchmen, Broken Embraces, Life During Wartime, District 9, Star Trek) none of them were in the top sixty films I saw during the year.
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Amazon EC2
In an effort to understand what all this cloud computing business was about, I set up an Amazon EC2 account today.
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